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VII

§ 1. Object and method of the work.

§ 2. Description of the ms.

§ 3. A brief comparison with the other mss.

§ 4. Spelling.

§ 5. Dialect. § 1.–The present publication is intended as a complement to those made by previous editors of the text of ms. Harl. 6258 (Brit. Mus.). The third part of this ms., entitled Περὶ διδάξεων, was published by Mr. Löweneck in the Erlanger Beiträge (1896) and the first, entitled Herbarium Apuleii, by Mr. Hugo Berberich in this series (Heidelberg 1902). It was at the kind suggestion of Prof. Napier that I undertook to copy out the second and shortest, namely the Medicina de quadrupedibus, which I bring out to-day with introduction, notes, translation and glossary, as a supplementary «thèse» for a doctor’s degree in the University of Paris. My copy includes the whole text of the Medicina as given in the ms. without, however, the § De beta which belongs to it, but which was rightly taken in by Mr. Berberich. The two lines immediately before, viz.: Wið cafodece pollege…, omitted by him, are given here.

Of the two publications just referred to, the first only claims to supply students with a correct text, to which it prefixes a few remarks on the mss. in which the said text